"wee" meaning in Dutch

See wee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʋeː/ Audio: Nl-wee.ogg Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], wee [adverbial, positive, predicative], weeë [feminine, indefinite, masculine, positive, singular], wee [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], weeë [indefinite, plural, positive], weeë [definite, positive], wees [partitive, positive]
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|odt|*wē}} Old Dutch *wē, {{inh|nl|gmw-pro|*wai}} Proto-West Germanic *wai, {{inh|nl|gem-pro|*wai}} Proto-Germanic *wai, {{cog|ang|wā}} Old English wā, {{m|en|woe}} woe, {{m|goh|wē}} wē, {{m|de|weh}} weh, {{m|non|vei}} vei Head templates: {{nl-adj|-}} wee (not comparable) Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-adj||-}}
  1. nauseating Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-wee-nl-adj-Cl6DR-Yd Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 50 34 17

Noun

IPA: /ʋeː/ Audio: Nl-wee.ogg Forms: weeën [plural], weetje [diminutive, neuter]
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|odt|*wē}} Old Dutch *wē, {{inh|nl|gmw-pro|*wai}} Proto-West Germanic *wai, {{inh|nl|gem-pro|*wai}} Proto-Germanic *wai, {{cog|ang|wā}} Old English wā, {{m|en|woe}} woe, {{m|goh|wē}} wē, {{m|de|weh}} weh, {{m|non|vei}} vei Head templates: {{nl-noun|f|-en|weetje}} wee f (plural weeën, diminutive weetje n)
  1. contraction during labour or childbirth Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-wee-nl-noun-oOOZ-RAl
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness, pain, woe (used in interjections of despair or annoyance) Tags: archaic, feminine Derived forms (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee
    Sense id: en-wee-nl-noun-r1HquQWm Disambiguation of 'sorrow': 5 95

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for wee meaning in Dutch (4.9kB)

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